Building on its experience with a pan-European project on Active Aging (EVAA) and the use of participatory dialogue this presentation reflects upon a new culture of conversation which taps into the wisdom, know-how and life experience of employees of any age.

1. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
WORLD CAFÉ EUROPE e.V.
Informing, Engaging and Inspiring People
about issues that matter

2. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
Science embraces reductionist thinking:
A complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts
…I could behold the antechapel
where the statue stood
Of Newton with his prism and
silent face,
The marble index of a mind for
ever
Voyaging through strange seas
of Thought, alone.
William Wordsworth
‘ ‘Residence at Cambridge'

3. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
transformed 20th century science:
The limit of reductionism's usefulness was reached
To raise new questions,
new possibilities,
To regard new problems
from a new angle,
Requires creative imagination
and marks a real advance in science.
Albert Einstein

4. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
David Bohm‘s systemic nature of thought
Using dialogue to overcome fragmentation in society
A new kind of mind
thus comes into being
which is based on the development
of a common meaning
that is constantly transforming in
the process of the dialogue.
David Bohm

5. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
Dialogue among people in small groups:
When the system connects with itself in creative ways,
collective intelligence emerges
We haven’t really paid much
attention to thought as a process.
We have engaged in thoughts,
but we have only paid attention
to the content, not to the process.
David Bohm

6. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
The World Café Process:
Fostering creativity and innovation through dialogue
If you want to change
the future,
you have to change
the conversation.
Alan Weber
Former Chief Editor
of the Harvard Business Review

7. Human Economy
ddn International Conference & Future Lab
SHR Hochschule Berlin
20.02.2014
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